MULTICULTURALISMO Resposta do então Governador da Índia Britânica a uma delegação hindu que reclamava contra a proibição do sati, o costume ancestral de queimar as viúvas juntamente com os maridos falecidos:

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours." Sir Charles Napier (1782/1853).